                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 18.2-307.1)

As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Ballistic knife&#8221; means any knife with a detachable blade that is
propelled by a spring-operated mechanism.
		&#8220;Handgun&#8221; means any pistol or revolver or other firearm, except a
machine gun, originally designed, made, and intended to fire a projectile by
means of an explosion of a combustible material from one or more barrels when
held in one hand.
		&#8220;Law-enforcement officer&#8221; means those individuals defined as a
law-enforcement officer in § 9.1-101, law-enforcement agents of the armed
forces of the United States and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and
federal agents who are otherwise authorized to carry weapons by federal law.
&#8220;Law-enforcement officer&#8221; also means any sworn full-time
law-enforcement officer employed by a law-enforcement agency of the United
States or any state or political subdivision thereof, whose duties are
substantially similar to those set forth in § 9.1-101.
		&#8220;Lawfully admitted for permanent residence&#8221; means the status of
having been lawfully accorded the privilege of residing permanently in the
United States as an immigrant in accordance with the immigration laws, such
status not having changed.
		&#8220;Personal knowledge&#8221; means knowledge of a fact that a person has
himself gained through his own senses, or knowledge that was gained by a
law-enforcement officer or prosecutor through the performance of his official
duties.
		&#8220;Spring stick&#8221; means a spring-loaded metal stick activated by
pushing a button that rapidly and forcefully telescopes the weapon to several
times its original length.

HISTORY: 2013, c. 746.